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Saginaw, ON - With an explosion of five goals in the
first period, the Sarnia Sting won their second
meeting of the home and home series with the Saginaw
Spirit 6-3.
Brett
Thompson, who had three goals in Friday's game in
Sarnia followed up with two more in the first period
to give him five in two nights against the Spirit.
Jack
Nevins started the scoring in the first for the
Sarnia 1-0 lead, and Rein Boucher would score his
14th of the season on the powerplay to put the Sting
up by a pair before the Spirit could answer just
under a minute later.
But
Thompson would add his first of the game and 10th of
the season two minutes after to restore the two goal
lead. Ludvig Rensfeldt would make it a 4-1 game with
under a minute to go, and 11 seconds later, Thompson
would add his second of the game for the 5-1 first
period lead.
In the
second, Nevins would score his second of the game
before Saginaw could final answer with a goal from
Michael Fine. John McFarland would add a third
period goal to round out the scoring as Sarnia wins
6-3.
Brandon
Maxwell picked up the victory again over the Spirit,
stopping 42 shots.
Sarnia is
currently in second place in the West Division
behind the Plymouth Whalers, yet have three games to
make up on them.
Sarnia is
back home on Thursday against Barrie and Friday
against Niagara before hitting the road Sunday to
head to Kitchener to round out the month of
November.
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